The author of The Circumnavigators as well as biographies of Charlemagne, Hans Holbein, and Francis Walsingham, Derek Wilson mines recent discoveries to offer this fresh look at the life and times of the great Tudor monarch Henry VIII, focusing in part on the King's often overlooked childhood and the influences of his father and grandfather. Interwoven with Henry's life within the court are his relationships with his six wives and an insightful account of England's conversion to a Protestant nation.